Improvement in hose-nozzles



NITED STATES PATIENT OFFICE.

FOSTER w. GATSSETT AND JAMEsH. BELSER, OF MARLBOROUGH, MASSA- OHUSETTS,ASSIGNORS or ONE-THIRD THEIR RIGHT TO FRANK A.

MARSHALL, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOSE-NOZZLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,020, datedSeptember 15, 1874; application filed July 25, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FOSTER W. GASSETT and JAMES H. BELSER, ofMarlborough, in the county of Middlcsex and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and valuable Improvement in Hose-Nozzles; and we dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation of the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification,and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a representation of a plan view of ourhose-nozzle. Fig. 2 is a sectional view, and Fig. 3 is a side view, ofthe same.

This invention has relation to hose-nozzles; and the novelty consists inthe novel construction and arrangement of the various parts, as will behereinafter more fully explained and claimed. 1

In the annexed drawings, A designates a hollow cylindrical nozzle-box,having through its peripheral walls a slot, at, and upon the unslottedportion thereof screw-threaded tubular projections or nipples b 12 uponwhich are screwed nozzles E and F. These nipples are, preferably, castwith the nozzle-box, but may be secured thereto, or dispensed withaltogether, when the nozzles will be screwed directly into the box, andthe said nozzles may be of various sizes and shapes. I'have caused to beshown in the drawings two nozzles, E F, only, as being used inconnection with my improvement; but I may use a greater number, if itshould prove desirable. B designates the coupling of a set section ofhose, 0, which is provided with a screwthrea'ded nipple, by means ofwhich it is at.- tached to the entry-port b of a hollow cylindricalvalve, G, which is applied within the hollow of the cylindricalnozzle-box A, and which is provided with an exit-port, I), through whichwater is allowed to pass when. it is caused to register with theexit-holes of either of the nozzles E and F. This coupling part of thehose 0 is passed through the slot at of the nozzle-box A, and is thenscrewed into the entry-port b of the valve G.

If the hose-pipe be held firmly in the right hand, the nozzle-box A maybe caused to rotate with the left, for the purpose of changing the flowof water from a nozzle of one to one of another-as, for example, fromthe round to the flat nozzle, or the reverse.

The valve G is inserted into thenozzle-box A by means of an open endthereof, which is then closed by a suitable screw-cap. e e designatenotches, which are cut into the solid end of the nozzle-box A in a linewith the longer extended axes of the nozzles F E, and which serve, whenthey are engaged with the catch D, having its fulcrum in standards uponthe coupling B, to prevent a casual displacement of the nozzle-box,whereby the exit-port of the valve would be closed by an imperforateportion of the periphery of the nozzle-box A, and the flow of waterinterrupted or allowed to find an exit through a nozzle other than thatsuited to the purposes of the pipeman.

With a View to preserving this engagement, I have used a spring, '5,which, by keeping the power end of the lever-catch D raised, also keepsthe other end engaged with the notches.

It will be seen from the above description that I have invented a mostuseful and convenient nozzle, whereby I am enabled to throw a solidstream, which I may change, by rotating the nozzle-box, into abroadly-spread sheet of water, or one performing the functions producedby an ordinary garden-sprinkler, and this 'by merely changing theexit-port of the valve to a nozzle producing the desired stream, withoutscrewing on a new nozzle, and without interrupting the flow of waterthrough the feed-pipe; also, that, by means of the springcatch, thevalve may be held to produce a given stream as long as may be desired.

The nozzle F is provided with a flattened aperture, f, allowing water tobe thrown therefrom in a solid flat stream, which will be found mostuseful in throwing, in a fan-like form, a mass of water upon goodsburning upon the shelves of a store, as, unlike a sprinkler, the partsof water will not be so disseminated as to be of non-effect, but will beof sufficient density to' produce an extinguishing effect upon theburning mass.

difi'erentlyrsizcd nozzles E and. F, constructed and operated asspecified. l

In testimony that we claim the above we have hereunto subscribed ournames in the presence of two witnesses.

FOSTER W. GASSETT. JA1\ IES H. BELSER.

W Vitnesses: LUKE H. W001), Guns. L. FLINT.

